Some of our lady readers may possibly think from the opening pages of this number that we there preach a crusade against all music. We do not wish to be so understood, for in its place none esteem it more highly. It is when, it usurps the study of nature, and becomes a sole accomplishment that we condemn. And on this topic of education the annexed truths will be appropriately quoted:

"The whole force of education, until very lately, has been directed in every possible way to the destruction of the love of nature. The only knowledge that is considered necessary among us is that of words, and, next after it, of the abstract sciences; while every liking shown by children for simple natural history has been either violently checked, (if it took an inconvenient form for the housemaids,) or else scrupulously limited to hours of play: so that it has really been impossible for any child earnestly to study the works of God but against its conscience; and the love of nature has become inherently the characteristic of truants and idlers. While also the art of drawing, which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing (because people can hardly draw anything without being of some use both to themselves and others, and can hardly write anything without wasting their own time and that of others,) - this art of drawing, I say, which on plain and stern system should be taught to every child, just as writing is, - has been so neglected and abused, that there is not one man in a thousand, even of its professed teaching, who knows its first principles," Ac.

The effect of ignoring nature in education is happily expressed by the same author in another place: "The main mischief of it is, that it leaves the greater number of men without the natural lfood which God intended for their intellects. For one man that is fitted for the study of words, fifty are fitted for the study of things, and were intended to nave a perpetual, simple, and religious delight in watching the processes, or admiring the creatures of the natural universe. Deprived of this source of. pleasure, nothing is left to them but ambition or dissipation: and the vices of the upper classes of Europe are, I believe, chiefly to be attributed to this single cause".

The Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius), is a climbing plant of much usefulness in covering up unsightly objects, or as a screen; when in full flower it is a charming plant It dies down in the fall similar to the hop vine, but the roots are quite hardy, and for covering an arbor it makes a good variety. We have seen a pretty effect produced on arbors where the roof is covered with grape-vines, by pruning the latter so as to confine the foliage to the top, and decorating the, sides with a variety of summer climbing plants, as the so-called Australian ivy, - a beautiful foliage, - Cobea scandens, Passion Flowers, Lophospermums, Maurandias, Solanuin jasminoides, Clematis, Ipomeas, etc. A variety of foliage and flowers can thus be obtained without detracting from the density of shade which the grape-vine ensures.